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S24:E5 - Balancing Parenthood and Programming (Phoebe Voong-Fadel)

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How I Decided When It Was Time to Start Looking for Jobs

When did you start looking for a job? When your son started primary school and he was in sort of school full-time. In terms of skills, I would say I learned enough job script at that point. And when you decided to start applying the Dufy already? I guess just like fake it till you make it a little bit. Yeah. So I had a portfolio, so that helped. A lot of free co-camp projects I had on Copen and also I freelanced as well towards the sort of last six months of my studying just to kind of get a bit of industry experience. That landed my first job actually!

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